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Language of Description: Czech
Language of Description: English

  1. Szymon Radzynski photograph

    The image, taken in June or July of 1945, depicts Szymon Radzynski (donor's father) wearing a prison uniform.

  2. Autograph album

    Rectangular form with black-and-white fabric-covered cardboard cover; interior pages of written text, drawings, adhered stickers, and adhered postcards; red paper strips adhered to the front cover with tape. The autograph album contains verses from 25 of Faye Adam's (now Faye Warschauer) classmates who lived in the Netherlands during World War II.

  3. Herbst family papers

    The papers consist of nine photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family in the Ansbach displaced persons camp, two photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family before World War II, two identification cards issued to Sabina Herbst [donor's mother] and Ziunia Herbst [donor] in Ansbach, three documents relating to Sabina and Ziunia Herbst's emigration to the United States in 1948, and two letters (with envelopes) written to Sabina Herbst while she was living in New York, N.Y.

  4. Josef Grotte photograph collection

    The photographs consist of images of Josef Grotte and his family before and during the Holocaust.

  5. Esther Lask photograph collection

    The photographs relate to the experiences of Esther Lask in several displaced persons camps in Germany after World War II. The photographs mainly consist of studio portraits of individuals and informal group images of refugees at various camps. Many of the photographs have handwritten messages on the back.

  6. Volodymyr Liker papers

    The papers mainly consist of individual studio portraits and informal group photographs depicting Volodymyr Liker and his family before and after World War II in Kiev, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) as well as a Soviet soccer team. The papers also include a modern document identifying Volodymyr Liker as a member of a Holocaust survivors organization in Kiev, Ukraine.

  7. Mordechai Weinryb photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mordechai (Motek) Weinryb [donor] and his friends during their years of organizing illegal emigration to Palestine and later during his internment in Cyprus. The images consist of studio portraits of the donor and friends as well as one informal group photograph.

  8. Anne Marie Yellin photograph collection

    The photographs depict Anne Marie Yellin and her parents before World War II as well as Anne Marie and other children who were in hiding during the Holocaust in a convent, St. Antoine de Padoue, in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium.

  9. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Werner

  10. Neuman family papers

    Contains false papers, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Szulem Neuman's experiences in hiding in and around Warsaw, Poland, his marriage to Irene Kuklinski, a Polish Catholic, in 1945, and the birth of their daughter, Jadwiga Neuman, in Bindermichl, Austria.

  11. Mendel Birnbaum photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mendel Birnbaum's experiences before and after World War II in Szczecin, Poland. The images consist of informal group photographs of family and friends as well as images of people dining, riding motorcyles, and farming.

  12. Rysia Bialostocka photograph collection

    The photographs relate to Rysia Bialostocka's experiences in Bialystok, Poland, before World War II. The images consist of informal, outdoor shots of groups of teenagers and children as well as studio portraits of individuals.

  13. Chana Brava photograph collection

    The photographs depict memorials and memorial services to victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania and the mass burial of Holocaust victims by perpetrators and bystanders.

  14. Michael Glück papers

    The papers relate to Michael Glück, a professional soccer player in Hungary who was a prisoner in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during the Holocaust. The papers consist of a naturalization certificate giving United States citizenship to Michael Glück, a passport, and three documents.

  15. Russek family photograph

    Image is of Herman Yablokoff (donor's uncle), a prominent actor in Yiddish theater, holding Michael Russek [donor's son] upon the arrival of the Russeks in N.Y. on March 3, 1949. The Russeks had immigrated from a displaced persons camp in Germany with the assistance of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), as indicated by the pin on Michael's jacket.

  16. Joe Ross collection

    The papers consist of a letter written from Buchenwald concentration camp to Copenhagen, Denmark, and a postcard written from Sachsenhausen concentration camp to Josefka Kuspumerek in Radom, Poland.

  17. Gheller-Millberg papers

    The collection consists of a census card issued to Romanian Jews in 1942, a military book identifying a Jewish member of the Romanian military, an identification card issued by the commissar of Jewish affairs, a death certificate issued to Ifrim Gheller [donor's relative] who was killed in a pogrom in Iași, Romania, in 1941, and four identification/citizenship certificates issued to Ifrim and Sarika Gheller [donor's relatives].

  18. Eliezer Löwi photographs

    The photographs depict Eliezer Löwi's experiences after World War II in Belgium and Israel. The images consist of mostly portrait photographs of Eliezer Löwi as a young boy, at his Bar Mitzvah, and as a member of the Israeli Navy. Also included are a photograph of Mr. Löwi and his mother in Israel and a class portrait of schoolchildren in Antwerp, Belgium.

  19. Nationaal gedenkteken van het Fort van Breendonk Mémorial national du Fort de Breendonk

    Square, tri-folded paper cover with red pre-printed text against white background; includes ten black and white photographs of sences from the Breendonk camp in Belgium attached to each other and cover; on lower left corner of verso of each photograph is printed caption of image on recto.

  20. Teich-Kutner family collection

    The collection consists of a letter written by Berish Teich donor's uncle from Opoczno, Poland, to Jacob and Salomea Teich Kutner [donor's parents] in Jamaica; a photograph of Berish Teich and his wife; and a newspaper clipping of the funeral announcement for Jacob Kutner.